Newegg screwed my address up luckily I have a friend that works for UPS here in Kingston, she's just going to sign for it and drop it to me after shes done work around 11 am p.s she works graveyard, so i can get it before 7pm as my place is super close to the facility and they drive furthest away and make their way back

Sounds more like you need another machine... not a gpu buyer
I have two running and two I'm messing around with. One is a S775 I'm having trouble getting to run stable with GPU WU's period, and the other is a DP Xeon that needs more work than I have time for ATM

The running ones are at their max I think.

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just breaking them off on you a bit I would give that 7770 a home for you but I'm short atm due to getting the parts together for the F@H rig

installed it and ran some stability test and the card got so hot it would throttle clocks down to 650mhz I took the card apart and repasted it now it will hit 1050/1500 at 85 deg 47% fan! I am really happy.

Made a quick sale on my P55/i7-870 system today along with some RAM, a CX430, Hyper 212 EVO and Samsung F1 as it is getting a bit long in the tooth, and I figured I should sell it while it still had decent value. So, I will lose ~4K PPD and I have to bring some old systems online to accommodate the GTX 465 and 2x 460s, but it gives me some money to save up for Haswell, possibly. Hopefully the GPU stuff stays around for a little while longer considering I have 5 7xxx cards now, but I guess other projects are out there that support them.

My dumb self forgot to plug the ethernet cable back into the DP Xeon system when I left yesterday--IIRC I have a 3-day buffer on it, so it should run out of work about when I get back to school on Sunday. So numbers will be down a bit for now...

I scored an i3 2100 for a decent deal so I'm thinking I'll throw the 7770 on that, and when I get the 3770k, I'll throw the 7870 on that. Only thing is if I'm going to do that, I'll have to get a z77 mobo for the 3770k.

I'm thinking about going itx on the 3770k and 7870, maybe a bitfenix prodigy and an itx z77.... Maybe, nothing is decided. i may just wait to get the 3770k and see what happens.

I scored an i3 2100 for a decent deal so I'm thinking I'll throw the 7770 on that, and when I get the 3770k, I'll throw the 7870 on that. Only thing is if I'm going to do that, I'll have to get a z77 mobo for the 3770k.

I'm thinking about going itx on the 3770k and 7870, maybe a bitfenix prodigy and an itx z77.... Maybe, nothing is decided. i may just wait to get the 3770k and see what happens.

I have here an MSI z68 gd55, the one I pm'd you about a few weeks back lol. From what I could tell, it would run the 3770k well enough.

Then the i3 came along. I had looked at it several days ago, before the 3770 but passed. Then tonight I made an offer and paid for it So I can put the i3 2100 in that perfectly, but I need a new mobo for the i7

Not a bad find at all. So you think the z68 would be fine with the 3770? That was my initial plan, but then I started getting the other ideas....

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I'd check the CPU compatibility list to make sure it supports IVB CPUs w/ the newest BIOS--but since you're just doing a straight multiplier OC probably to a sane speed, I see no reason there should be an issue

I'd check the CPU compatibility list to make sure it supports IVB CPUs w/ the newest BIOS--but since you're just doing a straight multiplier OC probably to a sane speed, I see no reason there should be an issue

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I don't think I'll need to OC the 3770 much, if at all. It'll be running the 7870 with 8-10 WUs, and it'll do that comfortably. I'm not decided yet, may still decide on something else in the mean time.